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adventures of programmer with screwdriver
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| | Subject: | Line-drying some clothes | | Time: | 08:22 pm |
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| | I haven't done that in a loooong while. The weather's almost warm enough for the clothes to end up dry, too! | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Subject: | Forbidden Kingdom | | Time: | 10:49 am |
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| K & I are planning to see The Forbidden Kingdom tonight. Majestic Bay, 7:30. Jet Li! Kung fu! Horses! Etc! All should come with!
Void where prohibited. Movie-outing plans are valid unless changed. Cash value 1/20 of a cent. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | lessons learned | | Time: | 10:44 pm |
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| | SKYY brand vodka is better at removing sharpie from plastic than Potter's. Both are better than Wet Ones. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Today's dorkbot: "April Foodery" ("April Foods Day Potluck! ... This is your chance to bring whatever food, drink, or snack that does something strange with electricity, illustrates your favorite physics phenomenon, explodes, best illustrates your sense of humor, or just plain looks really cool or tastes really yummy! ...") | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Bacon status: Saved. | | Time: | 11:18 pm |
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| | Pending actual receipt of deposit check, of course. But more later: tired now. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | moving aaaah | | Time: | 09:05 pm |
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| So, um ... like ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jinian says. You THINK you've left enough time and effort for everything, but as the deadline approaches (and as the property manager whom I will not describe in polite company, or even on LJ, becomes more and more unreasonable) you begin to realize you are DOOMED.
Anyone feel like coming over for a while to help out or even just sit around and eat donuts and offer moral support and a reminder that there are sane people in the world? Maybe after Sonja's birthday thing or on Sunday? (Aside from said birthday I'm planning to spend all my time packing, schlepping, or (minimally) sleeping.) | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| Settling in to the new place a bit. At least the cats are no longer hiding under the bedclothes all day. Not quite done extracting our too-many possessions from the old place yet.
Poll: should we have
[ ] old-house housecooling including mathom disbursement
[ ] new-house warming including admiring the Agropalma box edifice
[ ] other
And should we
[ ] play cricket cricket
[ ] play drunken cricket cricket
[ ] play roborally
[ ] just sit around and exchange stories of hateful property managers | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | lil dead birdie | | Time: | 05:53 pm |
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| Kaga's in a box in the freezer. I guess I'll go out to the country to bury her tomorrow. sigh
The vet, fwiw, said after doing a necropsy that her liver was enlarged and oddly pale, and mostly ruled out some possibilities (like infectious disease, poisoning by cleaning supplies, or window-induced head trauma). He thought maybe an infiltrative tumor, but I opted not to have sections sent off for further examination.
Maybe I should bury some millet with her so she can distract or pay the cockatiel-Charon if needed. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Chairman Kaga, RIP | | Time: | 11:55 am |
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| | She died at the vet this morning. :( | | |
| Kaga's not doing well; she's on antibiotics, feeding by tube, and the vet said they might put her on oxygen. She's staying at the vet today; I'm trying to reassure myself by imagining her in a tiny birdie ICU, surrounded by cockatiel-scale blinking beeping machines. (She's probably in a tupperware tub with a towel, but the beeping machines reassure me.)
Gah.
Things I am stressing about:- Sick, sick bird
- Asshat soon-to-be-ex–property manager (whom, fortunately, I'm not having to deal with just now)
- Moving house
- Work keeps throwing more and more stuff on my stack, meaning I rarely get anything actually done
Things I am not stressing about:- Other than the bird, nobody dying or horrendously ill. My family's nice and healthy.
- Not fighting with Kylee or anything
- No actual deadlines or other critical stuff at work.
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| | Tags: | geekery | | Subject: | decade counter | | Time: | 11:31 pm |
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| I just had the thought that the '80s and '90s, as decades, sort of correspond to the Lasnerian '60s and '70s for my particular brand of geekery. The starry-eyed fey hacker idealism of the '80s leading perhaps inevitably to the grotesque dot-com disco excesses of the '90s.
Of course, that means we're currently in the middle of ... the '80s? Analogy time!
big hair = XML
pastel triangles and curlicues = gradients and rounded corners
the A-Team = boingboing
MTV = social networking
zines = youtube
punk = mozilla/firefox
new wave = web 2.0
shoulder pads = ? | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | String theory spam | | Time: | 08:10 pm |
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| Subject: tiny dimension is your hidden shame, no need to worry, we'll help you!
I bet it went on to say, "Does your girlfriend laugh when she sees that most of your dimensions are compactified to less than 10-34m? Get extra branes fast!". Or something. Probably advocating getting cheap physics meds by crossing the border from Switzerland to France (and back again numerous times). | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | A poll, lo! Pa! | | Time: | 03:41 pm |
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| Idle thoughts occasioned by putting all my physical belongings into boxes.
What is wealth to you? And — whatever it is — what does one do to acquire it?
Comments temporarily screened, but I'll unscreen 'em in a day or so (so you can then follow up with, "Oh right, world peace, of COURSE, I meant chocolate mousse and world peace. Yes."). | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | rental argh | | Time: | 07:20 pm |
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| | Physical activity, e.g., packing boxes, helps to calm one down when one has a frustrating situation one cannot deal with directly. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | eyeless dweller of the deep | | Time: | 11:32 pm |
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| ( grossness )
Rarely am I happier to have opposable thumbs that can reach all parts of my body than when reading stuff like this.
(But KLAPPAR SKALBAGGE wouldn't ever hurt me, would you, SKALBAGGE?) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | new digs? | | Time: | 03:35 pm |
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| Well, hmmm. We might be moving to a new place. The house is relatively run down, but it's in a nice spot (a few blocks south of Wallingford). And we'll get to stop dealing with our current property manager, who annoys us.
[Edited to add: Still renting! Still a-skeert by the current housing market, even though it's not as bad as it was last year at this time...] | | comments: 14 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | not a new bird | | Time: | 03:10 pm |
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| | The field guide says that the flickers that've been poking around in the back yard today are very common around here, but they looked unfamiliar to me. Maybe I just didn't distinguish them from other birds. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
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